SHARING TIME: ღ - Sigh, a month already? I could have sworn it was only like two weeks or so. No, that's fine. orz ღ - BUT OKAY. Have some of my favorite Obi-Wan & Anakin gen and/or pre-slash fics this time. \:D/

SHARING TIME: ღ - I miss having a place for just recs, especially since I tend to spread them out over multiple tumblr accounts, and eventually I do want to get caught up. So I'm gonna start making a dent in them again! But I'll at least try to make them themed! ღ - In that vein: TIME TRAVEL FIC. \o/

SHARING TIME: ღ - Reading SW fic still takes up the majority of my fic reading time and everyone should join me because it's an old enough fandom that it actually has a lot of the good shit I'm looking for and a lot of it! This time with a bit more variety rather than just the PT. o/

SHARING TIME: ღ - I, uh. Thought it had only been about six months or so? Turns out a bit longer than that. But, well, I always get a kick in the pants to start crossposting recs when I dive face first into a new fandom and I'm here in Star Wars hell, so, let's go then. ღ - I've posted these recs to tumblr already, but it's nice to have an archive on DW/LJ, it's much cleaner and more organized here. ღ - So, I saw TFA and I liked it a lot, I was really impressed! I walked out of the theater totally wanting fic! And then... something... happened... idk how to explain it. There's such suffering and terrible endings for so many characters I just want all of it fixed and to really fix everything you pretty much have to go back to the beginning and fix everything about Anakin Skywalker's life.

And so I started reading fic for that. And from there it was like "No, I don't ship anything, I just want gen fix-it." --> "Whoa, this is a really hot suitless Vader fic with really excellent Padme characterization!" --> "So, look, I don't ship it, but I love time travel fic, so I'll read this Obi-Wan/Anakin + Anakin/Padme fic --> Obi-Wan/Anakin/Padme fic." --> "Okay, so maybe I do ship Obi-Wan/Anakin a little, at least as an OT3." --> "NO, I AM IN OBI-WAN/ANAKIN HELL, I'M NEVER GETTING OUT, LEAVE ME HERE WITH MY FEELINGS, THIS SHIP IS RUINING MY LIFE."

SHARING TIME: ღ - Dammit. The weekend comes around and I'm all, "eh, I'll wait until Monday" and then I forget and suddenly half the week is gone. But I think I'm still making progress on catching up on everything, so I'm not too worried. ♥

SHARING TIME: ღ - These are actually current recs because, idk, I thought that would help me better keep track of what I have/haven't posted. And all were read in the last week, in addition to the Hannibal reading I've been doing. Someone save me from this hell. ;__; ღ - No, wait! I mean, look, you want to join me in Daredevil fandom, you doooooo, joinnnnn meeeeeee and appreciate Charlie Cox's very fine assets he brings to the role.

SHARING TIME: ღ - Doubling up this time in order to better catch up. Also, if you haven't seen Mad Max: Fury Road, I really really want to encourage you to do so because it was awesome and looked amazing on the big screen and it was just so fucking good omg. Also, Legend of Korra was super good for me, since I avoided most of the fandom drama and just focused on what I liked about the show itself. I'm learning how to do fandom good now! \o/ ღ - Have some bonus Mad Max: Fury Road links!

→ Mario Kart: Fury Road (Parody Trailer) - Fury Road meets Mario Kart, including some delightful editing to go along with some truly inspired moments.→ The Unbreakable Furiosa - Another amazing crossover with some incredible editing. Fan-fucking-tastic.→ Yakety Max - An '80s metal version of Yakety Sax to some of the action scenes of the movie? A++++, what a good.→ Mad Max Fury Road - Benny Hill - As much as I love the metal version, there's just always going to be something about the original that's fucking magical and this one's no exception.

SHARING TIME: ღ - So, I went through this phase (and may well be drawn back there, if the extended editions give me something to work with) where I tore through the Tolkien fandom. And as soon as Daredevil lets me go, I'm going back there. But, good lord, the amount of Elf fic I read was ridiculous. Shit, the amount of reading I did on canon about the Elves was ridiculous. But I love them so much, they're so goddamned weird and hilarious and tragic and epic and dumb as shit sometimes and brilliant at others and just. Elves are the people of my heart, okay. (But especially the Greenwood ones.)

SHARING TIME: ღ - I had trouble deciding where to start with posting recs, I'm so out of practice that the choices seemed a bit overwhelming. Start from the older ones? Start with the newer ones and work my way back? How many to each post?? Eventually, I decided on Daredevil because that's where I spend a lot of time my these days and because it's a relatively recent fandom, so I figure, hey, if I'm trying to be current with my journal, that's the way to go.

I never expected this show to eat me as hard as it did, but I'm well on my way down the rabbit hole and not coming out any time soon, I fear. Not even for the new season of Hannibal, SIGH.

And maybe I should probably have waited until the beginning of next month to start this, make it a nice, even six months thing, but I figure this will give me a chance to post some of the recs I've been doing elsewhere.

I was eaten pretty hard by tumblr, of course, and a lot of my fic recs have been going over there, since that's where I spend most of my time these days. But I do that thing where I split my time across multiple blogs, since I work better with more focused tumblrs, and I've been complaining to myself that I don't have a single place for all the recs in an organized way that I like.

So, okay. I'm going to gather them all up and start crossposting them to my journal (and hopefully this will make me actually post the ones I've been sitting on for ages, too) and while I'm at that, I'm gonna do an old-fashioned recs goal for the year.

I don't know how many I've done this year so far, but it's been a fair amount, so I'm setting myself with the goal of 1,200 recs by the end of the year. This will include the ones I've already done, because I'm not that much of a masochist, but I'm hoping that means I'll only have 600 left for the rest of the year.

My main fandoms have been the Marvel Cinematic Universe (mostly Thor stuff, but now Daredevil as well, and occasional Avengers-in-general stuff) and Tolkien fandom (well, lbr, the Tolkien Elves, mostly the Greenwood ones) and occasional trips into stuff like Mad Max: Fury Road or Legend of Korra or Sailor Moon.

I also started updating my archive site even! Though, christ, that thing's way out of date and this is going to take me forever. But idk it feels kind of good to be productive, too, and hopefully this will give me a good way to see how much progress I'm making.

Also, I really, really want to talk about feelings about stupid nerds in love on Daredevil, god, I need everyone to watch this show with me.